Shedding light on development: Leveraging the new nightlights data to measure economic progress

• Prachi Jhamb ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Prachi Jhamb, Susana Ferreira

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pj40553@uga.edu

  Affiliation Department of Applied Economics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8932-3874

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• Susana Ferreira ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Prachi Jhamb, Susana Ferreira

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Economics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Patrick Stephens ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ PS, MS and JW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Mekala Sundaram ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ PS, MS and JW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4235-8783

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• Jonathan Wilson

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Software

  ¶‡ PS, MS and JW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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